ASUS Maximus 4 Extreme Review

AIDA64

For our testing we've got an i7-870 on a Maximus III Extreme at stock at 4 GHz. An i7-950 on a Rampage III Extreme at stock and 4.4GHz and our i7-2600K at stock and 4.6GHz. We're also trying out a new style of graph so opinions are welcome.

AIDA64

Straight out the gate the Maximus IV is taking the plaudits thanks to the improved power available with the i7-2600K. Clearly the inclusion of the AES instruction set in the 32nm CPUs allows it to blow that benchmark away, but all the rest it rocks hard in too, especially at stock when against the much faster clocked previous generation.

Memory would be one of the tests that we expect the Maximus IV to meet the Maximus III and fall way behind the triple-channel wonder that is the X58 chipset. Amazingly it doesn't and produces some staggering numbers. Either the memory controller is vastly refined and the next version of the LGA1366 chips will be mind-blowing, or Triple-Channel was acclaimed to have benefits that just don't pan out.

You should add static values to each bar to make it easier to compare between them. There are so many graphs associated with reviews such as yours, would be nice to be able to move more quickly through them.

And especially in cases like the wprime95 in your new LGA 1155 review where the 1024M values are so high they stretch the scale, leaving almost no resolution for displaying the 1M results. So you have to hover the mouse over each of them.

Also just post them as pictures, the animations don't really add anything to it and pictures will probably load faster. But most importantly you gain compatibility with non flash compatible mobile devices.

I mostly read review and do research when commuting and being out of the house. Most other sites work for that, but yours.

Other than that, thanks for a great site. I appreciate the amount of detail you out into your work.

Looking forward to see how far you can get the i7-2600K on boards like the new UD7 from Gigabyte. I don't really trust the Digi+ VRM and UEFI bios yet.

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